Posts by Luke Williamson
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Who qualifies as the younger version of Angelina Jolie and could play Halo Jones?
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Ditto Asterix and Tintin at my house. When I worked at Whitcoulls for 6 months in my younger days and could get 50% discount, I bought new copies of all books in both series. Still tattered and sellotaped from endless reading by kids and me over last 20 years.
Slaine the movie!!! I feel a warp coming on . . .
Or Strontium Dog the movie. I want to play Midden Face McNulty. -
Still got three boxes full of 2000AD under the house which my 13-year-old recently pulled out and read through over a month or so. Ahhhh . . . vintage Judge Dredd, Slaine and Halo Jones. Still get kick out of Arnie Stodgman and his belly wheel.
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I spent Waitangi Saturday celebrating my Ma-In-Law's 70th up at Maungaturoto. Big ups to her for 70 well spent years so far and for showing how nice mothers in law can be. Anyway, also in attendance was a good friend of theirs from Canada who was asking some intelligent questions about Waitangi Day and race relations in NZ. The level of inherent anti-Maori feeling around there amongst the grey-haired, bowling club attending guests at the party was still a bit shocking to me even though I have encountered it before. Epitomised by the commnet "Well it's not that long since Maori were eating each other so what do you expect". One forgets just how built in some of that thinking is. The balance to that is our children who have gone through the schooling system for the last 10-odd years and who don't bat an eye at singing the national anthem in Maori, correctly pronouncing Maori place names, and having much greater acceptance of things Maori just because that's what they have been taught is normal. What am I trying to say . . . I don't know. We've got at least another generation yet before the "concept" of being Maori is seen as an acceptable or even positive thing for our country and that is going to express itself on Waitangi Day so get used to it and enjoy the fact that it is at least open for vigorous discussion.
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Pour it out on the counter next time, then turn on your heel and walk out gracefully - or run if they have a hockey stick under the counter.
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How about we raise the drinking age to 20 again and ban alcohol advertising. Either that or make it legal to drink anything at any age and legalise ALL drugs and do snazzy TV campaigns about how it's not OK to take acid and drive if you've already been on the P for a day.
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Flasé - a florist who doesn't care?
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Do we still get a music, vid and usual Friday post Russell?
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Steady diet of X-files and Da Vinci code then? Might as well say thanks and goodbye now as you'll probably be bumped off by "them" before you get to publish.
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So hit us HORansome - what's the thesis topic?